 Gaps would enable you to attack if you should wish. For a great part of the way you would be practically between the enemy and both Washington and Richmond, enabling us to spare you the greatest number of troops from here. When, at length, running for...  Major-general Ambrose E. Burnside and the Ninth army corps - Stran 163avtor: Augustus Woodbury - 1867 - 593 straniCelotni ogled - O knjigi
 | Samuel Livingston French - 1906 - 382 strani
...running for Richmond ahead of him enables him to move this way, if he does so, turn and attack him in the rear. But I think he should be engaged long before...enemy, and it is unmanly to say they cannot do it. . ." The following extracts from letters written at this time by General Lee and addressed to President... | |
 | George William Redway - 1906 - 342 strani
...think you not he would break your communication with Richmond within the next twenty-four hours ? . . . It is all easy if our troops march as well as the...enemy, and it is unmanly to say they cannot do it." In this letter, dated October 13, Lincoln summed up the situation. A call for troops on July 2 had... | |
 | George Haven Putnam - 1909 - 330 strani
...beat him somewhere or fail finally, we can do it, if at all, easier near to us than far away. . . . It is all easy if our troops march as well as the enemy, and it is unmanly to say that they cannot do it. " The patience of Lincoln and that of the country behind Lincoln were at last... | |
 | United States. War Department - 1912 - 540 strani
...running for Richmond ahead of him enables him to move this way, if he does so, turn and attack him in the rear. But I think he should be engaged long before...cannot do it. This letter is in no sense an order. " It was unfortunate for the country that this letter, so earnest and full of wisdom, was not received... | |
 | Emory Upton - 1912 - 546 strani
...running for Richmond ahead of him enables him to move this way, if he does so, turn and attack him in the rear. But I think he should be engaged long before...cannot do it. This letter is in no sense an order. « It was unfortunate for the country that this letter, so earnest and full of wisdom, was not received... | |
 | 1916 - 544 strani
...running for Richmond ahead of him enables him to move this way, if he does so, turn and attack him in the rear. But I think he should be engaged long before...cannot do it. This letter is in no sense an order. " it was unfortunate for the country that this letter, so earnest and full of wisdom, was not received... | |
 | Emory Upton, United States. War Department - 1917 - 546 strani
...for Richmond ahead of him enables him to move this way, if he does so, turn and attack him iii the rear. But I think he should be engaged long before such point is reached. It i.sall easy if our troops march as well as the enemy, and it is unmanly to say they cannot do it. This... | |
 | Perry Belmont - 1925 - 652 strani
...for Richmond ahead of him enables him to move this way, if he does so, turn and attack him in [the] rear. But I think he should be engaged long before...cannot do it. This letter is in no sense an order. " (Morse's Life of Lincoln, Vol. II, page 88.) The date of the letter was October I3th; it was the... | |
 | Abraham Lincoln, Don Edward Fehrenbacher - 1977 - 292 strani
...fifty-three. I should think it preferable to take the route nearest the enemy, disabling him to make an important move without your knowledge, and compelling...as well as the enemy; and it is unmanly to say they can not do it. This letter is in no sense an order. Yours truly, A. Lincoln <J5. Defeat at the Polls:... | |
 | United States. War Department - 1888 - 1312 strani
...attack him in the rear. Bnt I think he should be engaged long before suri! point is reached. It ie all easy if our troops march as well as the enemy, and it ie unmanly to say they cannot do it. This letter in in no sense an order. Youre, truly, A. LINCOLN.... | |
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